"Words that make actions speak louder."
Thirty-two Democrats opted to put principle before the political expediency of compromise for compromise’s sake. “Congress shouldn’t be patting ourselves on the back just because we didn’t shoot ourselves in the foot.”
We have been calling on our supporters to flood their members of Congress today with this simple statement: “A budget deal that abandons the unemployed is no deal at all.”
We helped deliver a petition to House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan signed by more than 700,000 people calling for “no grand bargain in exchange for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid cuts.”